John Dryden quotes - page 12

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the Devil. (John Dryden)
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense. View quote
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Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck. View quote
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Accurst ambition, How dearly I have bought you. View quote
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He who purposes to be an author, should first be a student. View quote
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I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. View quote
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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. View quote
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Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. View quote
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And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but neer will reach an excellence. View quote
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Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade. View quote
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One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. (John Dryden)
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. View quote
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He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.... He was naturally learnd he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature he looked inwards, and found her there.... He is many times flat, insipid his comic wit degenerating in to clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some occasion is presented to him. View quote
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When he spoke, what tender words he used So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. View quote
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Dying bless the hand that gave the blow. View quote
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Not to ask is not be denied. View quote
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He is the very Janus of poets he wears almost everywhere two faces and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other. View quote
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A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms. View quote
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So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade. View quote
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But tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation. View quote
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Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind. (John Dryden)
Woman's honor is nice as ermine it will not bear a soil. View quote
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Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art and kind without deceit. View quote
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Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. View quote
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Parting is worse than death it is death of love. View quote
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John Dryden

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Occupation: English Poet
Born: August 9, 1631
Died: May 1, 1700
Quotes count: 316
Wikipedia: John Dryden

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